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Live From Main Street: Getting Heard this Election Season: What Stands Between the Public and a True Story?
Date: June 8, 2008 - 5:00pm
Location:
The Women’s Club of Minneapolis
410 Oak Grove Street, Down Town Minneapolis
Description:
Dear Friend,
We’re excited to invite you to Live From Main Street Minneapolis (LiveFromMainStreet.org) - the first in a series of televised town hall events designed to shake-up boring horse race election coverage and highlight what’s really at stake this election season.
Please join us for the premiere event at the Women’s Club of Minneapolis at 2pm June 8 for: Getting Heard this Election Season: What Stands Between the Public and a True Story?
Inspired by the work of everyday activists and local independent media Live From Main Street’s first town hall will explore what it takes to get heard in the era of big media and diminished civil liberties.
Hosted by Laura Flanders, author of Blue Grit and host of Free Speech TV’s Grit TV and KFAI and Insight News’s Al McFarlane.
Featuring:
Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now!
JohnNichols, Washington Correspondent for The Nation
Malkia Cyril, Director of The Center for Media Justice
Colleen Rowley, FBI Whistle Blower and2006 Congressional Candidate
Joel Kramer, Founder of The Minneapolis Post
Paul Schmelzer, Managing Editor of Minnesota Monitor
Marlina Gonzalez, Program Director of the Unconvention and Intermedia Arts
And more of your Twin City favorites!
This interactive town hall event will be distributed by an unprecedented collaboration of Independent media including LinkTV, Free Speech TV, The National Radio Project and many more – come be part of the fun!
The first 150 guests to arrive will receive a free copy of Amy Goodman’s Standing Up To the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, courtesy of Progressive Book Club.
DETAILS:
WHEN: Sunday June 8, 2pm (doors open at 1pm)
WHERE: The Women’s Club of Minneapolis
410 Oak Grove Street, Down Town Minneapolis
MAP: http://www.womansclub.org/page/1/contact.jsp
FREE OF CHARGE and open to the public. Seating is limited so please arrive early -doors open at 1pm.
RSVP for preferred seating here: http://livefrommainstreet.com/content/RSVP
RSVP is not necessary to attend- there will be general admission seating available on the day of the event.
Live From Main Street ( http://livefrommainstreet.org/) is a project of The Media Consortium, (www.themediaconsortium.org).
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